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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 17 – May 24, 2018 191 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 144 Get it by email ↓
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Thousands of women say Essure birth control caused intense pain

The device is the subject of nearly 27,000 complaints to the FDA since its approval in 2002

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Business 13 stories

  1. How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas

  2. GDPR: Don't Panic

  3. I became CEO at 20. Here's what I learned

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  1. Why it’s so hard to fix banking: An interview with Simple’s exiting CEO

  2. GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

  3. U.S. Launches Criminal Probe into Bitcoin Price Manipulation

  4. Charging electric scooters is a cut-throat business

Sports 11 stories

  1. Bitcoin Gold Hit by Double Spend Attack, Exchanges Lose Millions

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  1. Why did I spend 1.5 months creating a Gameboy emulator? (2017)

  2. Winds 2.0: It’s Time to Revive RSS

  3. Estonia plans to become a free public transport nation

Technology 150 stories

  1. Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause from Its Code of Conduct

  2. The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written

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  1. LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for All Major U.S. Carriers in Real Time

  2. Sweden ends contract with Elsevier, moving for open access for science articles

  3. A Wikipedia editor's long-running campaign

  4. 82-Year-Old Japanese Woman Finds Success in Coding

  5. An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Filmstro: Royalty-Free Music

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  1. Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

  2. Show HN: HyperApp – 1k JavaScript framework for building web applications

  3. Show HN: Cannoli – A compiler for a subset of Python written in Rust

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